As a co-founder of a hardware startup, I understand the importance of building networks and trading war stories with other co-founders who are working on startups in the same vein. While we have a lot of similarities to our software brethren, we also have some unique differences/challenges that we can share and learn from to help advance our companies.

Code for Summit County is a Code for America Brigade headquartered in Akron, Ohio. We are developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. You can find our official website at http://codeforsummitcounty.org

We are a hackerspace based in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We are a collective of technology enthusiasts, software engineers, hardware hackers, expatriates from the automotive industry, and librarians with straight-up super powers. We are community-oriented, focused on team projects that bring people together and pointed in the same direction. Please come out and meet us, we're always looking for friendly and interesting people to meet and work with!